The Rule: Work is great, I recently got a raise and I make 5k more than I made when I was hired on a year and a half ago. I'm gaining responsibility and have recently been made the office lead, I've been given lucrative positions on committees and am learning a lot in the ways of business etc. Everyone at work loves me :D
I'm becoming better friends with my friend Krista.
I have a great car
I'm saving a boatload of cash
I have a relatively active life playing sports and hanging out after work
I've been eating healthy and feel much better for the effort.

Teh Suck: Lots of CRAP has been going on. Let me put it in a frame of reference for you...
Last friday a friend of mine at work's husband passed away. She's now left with two kids(2 and 4) He was only 30 years young. He died suddenly and without warning. He was fine that morning and he died by 4p that afternoon. That is some SCARY shit. Excuse my french.
My sister is learning to drive. She mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal and slammed my mother's car into the garage, knocking it off it's foundation. Dad and I are working hard to fix it.
My best friend Brendan, who has been working with me for the past 6 months or so part time was just offered a FT position with the firm. Only problem is he'd be working in our Columbus office, which is over 2 hours away. I'm happy as hell for him, but I'm going to miss him horribly. We always do stuff together.
My other best friend(I refer to him as my brother) travels SO much for his job I haven't seen him in over a month. He works such long hours it wears him out and I feel for him. Later on this fall he plans on moving out to his buddy's house in a city about 20 minutes away(He lives the next street over now) I'll still be able to see him, but not often as he's travelling and such.

See what I mean? There's just so much stuff going on I don't know whether to be ecstatic or depressed. I waiver between the two every day. It's really kind of annoying. *sigh* :hmm: Sorry to be so emo, but I had to let it out.

Huggles!

*hugs* Feel better Gib. :(

There's some good things to balance the crap that happens, thank goodness.
Life is never fair, unfortunately...but don't let the hard things mire you down.

Yeah, but I just hate the up and downedness of it. I'd almost rather always be depressed or always be happy :p
Thanks for all the well-wishes and hugs :D
I'm not letting them mire me down much, I'm just deep in thought about things that's all. I just hope my lack of my best friends won't cause a domino effect that ruins the good is all. I don't want to become an antisocial arsemonger. Oh wait...I am antisocial already :p Not really, I'm just uncomfortable around people I don't know and I'm SO comfortable with them, hanging out, enjoying buffoonery. I meet new people just by the glow of good time that we always have, that's how I meet new people and avoid going and seeking them at the same time. It's nice, but it'll be hard.
My other 'friends' are so immature that I just can't stand hanging around them much, so they won't help :(

lives are so overrated. go back to EQ2, Gibby, it's calling you... it misses you... :|

lives are so overrated. go back to EQ2, Gibby, it's calling you... it misses you... :|
I'm playing WoW off and on :hmm:

All these things also make me think about things I haven't done in life. I see my peers and they've done so much in life. They may not be as ahead in a career or matters such as that, but they've lived and done so much more. It kind of makes me depressed :( Like places they've been, things they've done, people they've known, people they've dated, fun they've had, etc.
/emo :|

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -Thoreau

Cutie, it is generally depressing when one compares one's life with others (because the tendency is to focus on those one perceives and having and accomplishing "more"). Being True To Yourself is the best path, imo. If everyone were the same, life would be excruciatingly dull.

A day without a dup post is a day without sunshine.

The older you are the more you realize that there is good and bad in all things. This very week I graduated with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering, and yet this last 4 weeks I had to attend two funerals. I got a new cat and am due to take a trip of a livetime and yet had to deal with an enlarged lymph node... so thats all just par for the course.

Its like the song by Jem... its just a ride its just a ride nowhere to run no where to hide.....

Deal with it.. and enjoy the ride.:hmm:

Matt I can understand where you're coming from and I think it's nice that you care about your friends and family so much. I'm sure lots of people would be mean and just say "oh well suck to be you" and go on with their lives. Being compassionate is a good trait don't get me wrong but maybe you shouldn't let it get to you quite so much. Don't stress out because of other people's problems, you can be sympathetic and helpful but being depressed about those problems doesn't help anyone. Hang in there bunny!